Questions tagged [faq]
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How to create a Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example?
I have been asked to provide a "Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example" (MCVE) in my question. What is this, and why should I include it?
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Are answers offering plugins that address the question "link-only" answers?
There are quite a few questions one could ask about vim that can be legitimately answered with "yes, here's a link to a plugin that does exactly that."
For example:
How can I comment code with a ...
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What do we do with questions that are already answered somewhere else on SE?
The title kind of says it all. I'm asking, because this
Performing certain operations without clearing register question seems to be sufficiently answered https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54255/in-...
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How much should we indulge questions about plugins?
Lots of very useful vim functionality is available these days through plugins, supported by plugin managers such as Pathogen. I would guess that most experienced vim users use plugins - I certainly do....
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What is considered to be vi?
/bin/vi, as written by Bill Joy in the '70's is vi. And /usr/bin/vim, as written by Bram in the '90's, is vim.
But we also have neovim now, nvi (mostly the same as Joy's vi, except when it's not), ...
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